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I was hunting a Vegas line on this thing crashing when it dipped just after pulling up its gear.
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Navy F/A-18E Super Hornet lands on aircraft carrier in rough seas with zero visibility
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hostile apostle posted:Navy F/A-18E Super Hornet lands on aircraft carrier in rough seas with zero visibility  that's loving impossible.
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May 31, 2015 23:13
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hostile apostle posted:Navy F/A-18E Super Hornet lands on aircraft carrier in rough seas with zero visibility 
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May 31, 2015 23:17
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It looks like once he saw the island emerge from the fog he dove for the deck
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Jun 1, 2015 00:10
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Scratch Monkey posted:It looks like once he saw the island emerge from the fog he dove for the deck That's pretty normal, from what I understand. Your landing gear is absorbing a lot of energy that would otherwise be forward inertia. You drop, converting some into downward inertia, and the gear bleeds it off. He was obviously flying by the instruments.
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Jun 1, 2015 00:51
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Godholio posted:That's pretty normal, from what I understand. Your landing gear is absorbing a lot of energy that would otherwise be forward inertia. You drop, converting some into downward inertia, and the gear bleeds it off. Not really, you're targeting a stable (and aggressive) glideslope in order to precisely hit the landing area. I mean, yes, the landing gear is technically absorbing some of what would otherwise be forward momentum, but it's not like that's contributing to slowing you down much. Your vertical speed on touchdown is still only a small fraction of your overall velocity, and the cables and arresting engines are absorbing way more energy than your plane can. One thing you absolutely don't do is dump the nose or cut power to try and drop it on the deck. Best case, it'll screw up your hook angle and you'll miss the wires. Worst case you fly it into the back of the boat, or you don't have enough power on for a bolter and drop it off the far end (keeping in mind that since jet engines take a few seconds to spool up, you're supposed to be hitting the deck with the throttles pushed up to max).
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Jun 1, 2015 01:18
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Dumping the nose in any modern aircraft is asking for a disaster. Nose gears are fragile.
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Jun 1, 2015 01:20
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Nuclear Tourist posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1N3MNTT2hkc How the gently caress did Hezbollah get a M1?
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Chiwie posted:How the gently caress did Hezbollah get a M1? They probably found it abandoned on the side of the road after the Iraqi army retreated
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edit: or that ^^^ Jordan maybe?
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Chiwie posted:How the gently caress did Hezbollah get a M1? But the difference between the Iraqi army and Shia militias is very, very thin.
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Jun 1, 2015 02:20
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Chiwie posted:How the gently caress did Hezbollah get a M1? doubt thats a hezbollah tank, probably iraqi army in support of the militia since its flying iraq flags
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Jun 1, 2015 02:22
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holocaust bloopers posted:Dumping the nose in any modern aircraft is asking for a disaster. Nose gears are fragile. I don't know what you're  Oh.
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Hot Karl Marx posted:Jordan maybe? Jordan currently uses the Challenger I and M60A3. Right now they're undergoing a refit program to replace the Challenger turrets with a low-profile M60A2 "Starship Patton" turret while the M60A3s are being upgraded with M60-2000/Sabra style stuff that include 120mm guns and shoot-on-the-move.   
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Gold.
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Jun 1, 2015 19:01
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I'm trying to imagine an F-35 with this painted on it... ...And also an officer with a clipboard standing next to it, hyperventilating.
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Jun 1, 2015 19:13
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That's the best nose art I've ever seen in my life.
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Jun 1, 2015 23:52
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should have been buster hymen and the penetrators, that guy really whiffed the joke there
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Jun 1, 2015 23:54
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hostile apostle posted:Navy F/A-18E Super Hornet lands on aircraft carrier in rough seas with zero visibility  that's loving neat.What's the flashing R-in-a-box on the right? Radar altimeter? Sink rate? I'm guessing the former...?
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Jun 2, 2015 00:32
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"Ruh Roh" ______/ 
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Jun 2, 2015 00:55
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Duke Chin posted:
Altimeter (in feet,) in the box, with an indicator for altimeter source, in this case, radar altimeter. Above it is the vertical speed, in feet/min.
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Jun 2, 2015 00:55
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MrYenko posted:Altimeter (in feet,) in the box, with an indicator for altimeter source, in this case, radar altimeter. Above it is the vertical speed, in feet/min. That's what I thought, thx - I love how it's like a casual jaunt from 200 to 110-100 then OKAY DOWN WE GO E: vvvvvvv  derp.
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Jun 2, 2015 01:08
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Duke Chin posted:That's what I thought, thx - I love how it's like a casual jaunt from 200 to 110-100 then OKAY DOWN WE GO I'm not sure, but I read the jump from 100-30 as the plane flying over the edge of the carrier, and now the thing directly below the plane is much closer.
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Jun 2, 2015 02:34
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bitcoin bastard posted:I'm not sure, but I read the jump from 100-30 as the plane flying over the edge of the carrier, and now the thing directly below the plane is much closer. This is correct. He's on a steady glideslope, the flight deck is about 60 feet above the water.
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Jun 2, 2015 04:10
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Can somebody tell me what that jumble of icons at the bottom the hud mean?
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Jun 2, 2015 07:05
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Those bottom-most notches are the bank scale + pointer, the circle with the upside-down T coming out of it is the velocity/flight path vector, and the constantly adjusting lines and pointer thingy is def some kind of landing/angle of attack related gizmo but I don't recognize it.
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 http://i.imgur.com/YGbmU7j.pngSomebody fucked around with this message at 14:29 on Jun 2, 2015 |
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Jun 2, 2015 07:59
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"This is a desert," they said. "They'll melt in your pack," they said. Bitches ain't getting any of my marshmallows now.
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Jun 2, 2015 08:04
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That must smell wonderful.
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Jun 2, 2015 08:06
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The literally and completely undeniable fact that keeping Saddam in power was retrospectively the best option is hilarious beyond all comparison.
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I should have known when my platoon sergeants pre-deployment briefing was basically the mission is b******* just make sure your buddies come home that this may not be the best war to fight.
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Equine Don posted:snip Not what I had in mind when he asked me if I wanted to help him roast some nuts. Somebody fucked around with this message at 14:29 on Jun 2, 2015 |
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Jun 2, 2015 08:54
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That's what happens when you mix pop rocks and coke
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 http://news.sky.com/story/1494560/british-tank-flattens-learner-drivers-car quote:A learner driver had a lucky escape after the front of her car was flattened by a British tank in Germany. 
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Jun 2, 2015 11:45
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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad posted:There was no damage to the tank. This makes me smile.
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Jun 2, 2015 12:06
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What are those things strapped to the front of the tank that look like 55-gallon drums? please tell me its this
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terrez posted:What are those things strapped to the front of the tank that look like 55-gallon drums? Fuel drums, and that's the back of the tank.
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